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ORION. L. M.

J. ZUNDEL.

1. The heavens declare thy glory, Lord! In every star thy wisdom shines; But when our eyes behold thy

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word, We read thy name in fairer lines; 2. The rolling sun, the changing light, And nights and

days thy power confess; But the blest volume thou hast writ Reveals thy justice and thy grace.

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3. Sun, moon, and stars convey Thy praise Round the whole earth, and never stand; So when Thy truth began its race

It touched and glanced on every land. 4. Nor shall Thy spreading Gospel rest

Till through the world Thy truth has run; Till Christ has all the nations bless'd That see the light, or feel the sun. 5. Great Sun of Righteousness, arise;

Bless the dark world with heavenly light; Thy Gospel makes the simple wise, Thy laws are pure, Thy judgments right. 6. Thy noblest wonders here we view

In souls renewed, and sins forgiven; Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew, And make Thy word my guide to heaven.

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1. THE starry firmament on high,
And all the glories of the sky,
Yet shine not to Thy praise, O Lord,
So brightly as Thy written word.
2. The hopes that holy word supplies,
Its truths divine and precepts wise-
In each a heavenly beam I see,
And every beam conducts to Thee.
3. Almighty Lord! the sun shall fail,
The moon forget her nightly tale,
And deepest silence hush on high
The radiant chorus of the sky-

4. But fixed for everlasting years,

Unmoved amid the wreck of spheres,
Thy word shall shine in cloudless day
When heaven and earth have passed away.
SIR R. GRANT.

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PILESGROVE. L. M.

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1. Great Source of being, and of love! Thou wa-terest all the worlds a-bove;

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And all the joys we mor-tals know, From thine exhaust less fountain flow.

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2. A sacred spring, at Thy command,
From Zion's mount, in Canaan's land,
Beside Thy temple, cleaves the ground,
And pours its limpid stream around.

3. The limpid stream, with sudden force,
Swells to a river in its course;
Through desert realms its windings play,
And scatter blessings all the way.

4. Close by its banks, in order fair,
The blooming trees of life appear;
Their blossoms fragrant odors give,
And on their fruit the nations live.

5. Flow, wondrous stream, with glory crowned,
Flow on to earth's remotest bound;
And bear us, on thy gentle wave,
To Him who all thy virtues gave.

DODDRIDGE.

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1. SINCE first Thy word awaked my heart
Like light new dawning o'er me,
Where'er I turn my eyes Thou art
All light and love before me.

2. Naught else I feel, or hear, or see,
All bonds of earth I sever;
Thee, Oh my Lord, and only Thee,
I live for, now, and ever.

3. Like him whose fetters dropped away
When light shone o'er his prison,
My soul, now touch'd by mercy's ray,
Hath from its chains arisen.

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6. Mankind shall be one brotherhood;
One human soul shall fill the earth,
And God shall say, "The world is good
As in the day I gave it birth."

• Sung to Pilesgrove by slurring all the notes in measures (8) and (16).

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we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.

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2. When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even, And we can almost think we gaze, Through opening vistas, into heavenThose hues that mark the sun's decline, So soft, so radiant, Lord, are Thine.

3. When night, with wings of starry gloom, O'ershadows all the earth and skies, Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume

Is sparkling with unnumbered eyes-
That sacred gloom, those fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord, are Thine.

4. When youthful Spring around us breathes,
Thy Spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower that Summer wreathes
Is born beneath Thy kindling eye;
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.

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MOORE.

1. THE Lord my pasture shall prepare,
And feed me with a shepherd's care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard me with a watchful eye:
My noonday walks he shall attend,
And all my midnight hours defend.
2. When in the sultry glebe I faint,

Or on the thirsty mountains pant,
To fertile vales and dewy meads
My weary, wandering steps he leads,
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape flow.

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1. Source of being, source of light, With unfading beauties bright; Thee, when morning greets the

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purple waves away; Thee, O pa-rent, will I sing, To thy feet my tribute bring.

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1. SOURCE of being, source of light,
With unfading beauties bright;
Thee, when morning greets the skies,
Blushing sweet with humid eyes;
Thee, when soft declining day
Sinks in purple waves away;
Thee, O Parent, will I sing,
To Thy feet my tribute bring!
2. Yonder azure vault on high,

Yonder blue, low, liquid sky;
Earth on its firm basis placed,
And with circling waves embraced;
All-creating power confess,
All their mighty Maker bless;
Shaking nature with Thy nod,
Earth and heaven confess their God.

3. Source of light, Thou bid'st the sun
On his burning axles run;
Stars like dust around him fly,
Strew the area of the sky;
Fills the queen of solemn night
From his vase her orb of light;
Lunar luster, thus we see,
Solar virtue shines by Thee.

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